No and no.
I did get to have surgery, though - and do you know how sick you get before they decide that cutting you open and taking parts of you out is the best possible solution? PRETTY DARN SICK - and my youngest brother very helpfully suggested that they also take out all the other parts that I'm no longer using or can do without out to save me any future surgeries, but I chose to ignore his AMAZINGLY BRILLIANT advice and keep my ovaries, appendix and tonsils for future good times.
I'm pretty much better now AND I have some gross new scars! Win!
So I've decided that the best way to judge the quality of one's mate is to go through a long painful illness around them and if I didn't think my husband was a fine, fine fellow BEFORE now, I certainly would at this point. He has spent months and months buying groceries and making meals and caring for our monstrous children and keeping stuff WAY cleaner than it usually is and doing all the rest of the stuff he already does WITHOUT COMPLAINING ONCE. NOT ONCE. I married a freaking PRINCE, I tell you. A prince who should probably not decide to test my mettle in the same sort of way, frankly. He gets old/sickly/gross looking? I AM OUTTA HERE.
All right. So here's your assignment: tell me what I should write about in my next post because I am BORED of talking about this dumb illness. Ready? GO.
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How about a how-to guide on how to train a husband to do what yours does without getting uber-sick first.
you're back! :) So happy. And I'm glad you're not dead and that your husband is a saint!
I wish it was October, because then you could tell more ghost stories. Or December, because you could make fun of Oprah some more. But it is February.
How about the baby? What freakishly hilarious things has she said lately? Or how about you give us your Oscar picks? That could be funny... even more so if you haven't seen any of the movies. :)
So sorry things have been so darn hard! Yuck! You could write about why you and Sue at Navel Gazing seem to have the same kind of sick karma. It's kind of uncanny.
Your husband rocks!
Hope you are feeling better progressively :(
Back, and peppy as ever, aren't you? ;)
Please write about how you've stayed sane during all of this. We're having our own Really Hard Year, and I can always use encouragement or commiseration.
Please discourse on fruitcake.
Or squirrels.
Or perhaps polygamists.
So glad you're back and feeling a bit better!
I agree with Magpie, those topics sound delightful.
Yeah! Glad you're not in heaven and that you have an awesome cleaning husband! Do you rent him out? ;
Yes, I think a husband training manual is in order. While I have a pretty awesome one myself, the cleaning part? Not so much.
Also, I would like to know if you are pro-donut. If so, what kinds?
Yay! I was just wondering about you earlier today.
I think you should write a how to for spiritual seekers wishing to follow in the footsteps of the Eat Pray Love author. You could call it "Finding Enlightenment in Less Than $1000 a Day."
Oh man. I am so sorry. You have just been through the ringer lately! Cripes! Enough is enough! So glad you are feeling better now. And super glad your hubby is just so darn wonderful! You should, I don't know, bake him a cake or something. :)
So your kids have been monstrous, huh? Why don't you tell us about that in your next post! ;)
okay I second the vote for squirrels. I now reside with a vast squirrel population in my yard, and I am wondering WHY THEY ARE DIGGING UP MY FLOWERS.
Please advise.
Also I'm glad you are back and better. Geesh.
Oh. (Said very tenderly.) Just so glad you're alive. So many times have I thought, while cleaning the shower or whatnot, to email you and check up on things. No big ideas for you; you'll up with something because you've obviously lost neither your blogging mojo nor your fans.
That is one nice husband! He's a gem *smiles softly*
oh, yay! Glad to see you back. And glad you're better.
Please write about mixed-tapes (as opposed to "play lists"), since I'm old school and because my word verification is "redubs".
So glad to see Beck in my Google Reader today. :-)
What to write about? I'm struggling with this a bit myself. But on my mind right now are SPRING and gardening (which I've never been successful with but am going to give another go this year).
Like those before me have so eloquently said: so nice to "see" you again. So very very very much nicer, even, to know you are, in fact, not dead.
Tell us about schooling since you've been under the weather (and under the knife). Tell us about that smart-mouth younger brother of yours and how he has always given you such keen advice. Tell us how mind-boggling cold it must be.
Or just tell us whatever.
welcome back, beck!
write about how spring is right around the corner. . .
Your husband sounds like a damn good man.
Why not talk about other damn good men?
you should write more about what a gem Mr Beck is.
and also tell the story of the book his mom got him for christmas
YAY!!!!!! I was worrying that perhaps you had vanished permanently. And that would make me ever so sad.
How about deliciously satirical Beck versions of classic "love" stories?
I'm so glad to hear from you! I was honestly starting to worry.
Too bad Valentine's Day is over, or I would suggest you critique somebody's Valentine gift suggestion list. I'm sure there is/was one somewhere.
How about good or bad books/puzzles/tv shows/etc that kept you busy while sick? Or were you beyond all that stuff?
I'm glad you are back!! Yay, Beck! And yay for your husband, for keeping your family going while you were incapacitated. My husband did the same thing when I was terribly sick for the entire 9 months of my 2nd pregnancy. Blech.
Let's see, suggestions for your blog...I'd love to see you write something about how you think your kids will turn out 20 years from now.
So,so glad you are back to blogging because that means you are doing ok! Sorry you had to go through all that,
it does seem to be going around, this getting sick bit.
How is this...we have a possum living in our neighbours yard that visits us...I live in a townhouse and he/she has been around for about two weeks now. Who knew they in residential areas...makes the squirrels look provincial.
I'm so glad to hear from you that you can talk about how to boil an egg as far as I'm concerned.
Or if that's beyond your reach...maybe the weather?
;)
Ps. Seriously, glad you are nearly well and posting again.
I am so glad you are better, and I totally agree with you on the spouse thing. I am married to an amazing guy- and he has been going through this with me for 5, FIVE, long, long years.
But, you are BETTER! Hooray! and that is all. that. matters.
Oh Beck, I'm so glad you're ok!! And that you're back and that they didn't have to take out your sense of humor or you ability to craft words in amazing ways. Write about what you learned about your kids while you weren't at your best, and about what they kids are doing, what your plans are for Spring, etc.
And the golden husband thing - I can relate. When I dislocated my knee and couldn't even dress myself or get myself to and from the bathroom, much less take care of the kids or the house or my hubby, Pastormac did all his work and mine too and he was wonderful.
Did I say I'm glad you're back, already? I did?! Oh, well, silly me, here I am saying it again.
Yay! Beck is well! I would read your commentary on stereo instructions. Seriously.
:-)
Write about how you saw GOD when you were on the operating table and how she looked remarkably like ME.
Glad you're better. Missed your blog!
SO glad you are back! :) Have missed you.
Topics. I don't know. All I ever write these days are melancholic posts about culture shock and how weird America is. so it's not like I"m oozing over with good ideas myself.
I would suggest a "catch-up" post in which you tell us about your life. Then something else will come to mind for a following post. Maybe?
I think it should be a rant...or a ghost sitory...those are my favorite Beck-varieties.
I'm glad you're o.k.
I just spent a month in the hospital too - and so I'm dittoing everything you said about your husband - but for my husband. Maybe they were separated at birth.
I missed you so much! So glad you were being taken care of so well.
I like: Beck recipes, Beck crafty ideas, Beck redecorating/rearranging, just Beck.
We are happy, happy, happy that you're back! :) Now -- don't get sick again. Okay?
Yay! You're back! I don't care what you write about, just come back to usssss. We've been SO lonely!!!
Just yesterday I began a search for you. I know your last name you see (which means I could stalk you but I won't). Anyway, I found you on facebook and I found your husband too, looking for info to see if indeed you really were alive. Nothing showed. I got depressed. Then worried. Then I saw this and got all happy again. You live! Yay! Now I'll leave your personal info where it should be ... alone.
You're back! No ideas on what to write, I struggle with that daily.
But woman, you've been gone for weeks, and on your first day back on the blogosphere, you have 38 comments! Wow!
Wow you are back! Having your blog stay "gray and vast" in my feedreader for months was like weaning off from coffeine.
So sorry for your hard times! But glad to see you are recovering and can't wait to read more here.
I am glad to hear from you! After that last post, I was worried! I've been thinking about you a lot lately as my older son has been diagnosed with celiac disease, and I know all the difficulties you've had with this disease (and so many other things!) Poor baby! Yay for your husband! Yay that you're getting better!
Write whatever...you even made me smile with this post!
welcome back.
write about the difference between african and european swallows.
Likewise glad to read you're back.
Hubby did well. That richer/poorer - sickness/health thing will tend to tell the tale, as they say.
Please don't write about donuts.
Polygamists would be so much more interesting.
Glad you are better. I was worried.
You could write something wistful and nostalgic about how children grow older and life changes. I always like those.
Or I could send you my list and you could write one of my always-overdue malaprop posts for me.
Have been awaiting your return! I hope you are feeling well. Please write something touching about motherhood and how to try to survive the kids growing up. That or just some kind of observation of the world that will totally crack us all up! Thanks--can't wait!
P.S. Wow, what a hubby!
Good for you for picking a good one!! Hope you get all healed up soon.
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